Recording-scale.



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APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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MOSES Y. JORDAN, OF COMER, GEORGIA.

RECORDING-SCALE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,523, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed May 9, 1903- Serial No. 156,469- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, MOSES Y. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Comer, in the county of Madison and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Recording-Scales, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to new and useful improvements in recording weighingscales; and its object is to provide a device of this character for automatically recording the weight of objects thereon.

A further object is to provide novel meansfor automatically feeding a strip of tape to a roller having numerals arranged at suitable points thereon and which are adapted to be brought in contact with the tape and record the Weight upon the scales.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in providing a scalebeam having a rack-bar integral therewith and meshing with a gear which is secured to a revoluble shaft. A type wheel is also mounted on this shaft and rotates therewith, and an inkingroller normally bears upon the type on this wheel. Alever is mounted above the type-wheel and is adapted to support a roll of tape which extends between rollers and is adapted when the lever is depressed to come in contact with the type thereunder. The downward movement of the lever and tape operates mechanism of novel construction, which serves to impart longitudinal movement to the tape and bring it into position for the next impression.

The invention also consists in the further novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a perspective view of myimproved recording-scales.

Referring to the drawing by numerals of reference, 1 is a base having standards 2, between which is journaled ascale-beam 3, having a plat-form 4 at one end. This beam is mounted in a guide 5, which is secured to a standard 6, and that end of the beam 3 adjajacent to the guide 5 has a rack 7 integral therewith and meshing with a gear 8, which is secured to and rotates with a shaft 9, journaled in standard 6 and in the second standard 10. A rod 11 is suspended from the scalebeam at the end thereof adjacent the rack 7, and this rod is adapted to support a suitable number of weights 12. A type-wheel 13 is secured to and rot-ates with the shaft 9, and

arranged consecutivelythereon are numerals. An inking-roller 14 normally bears upon the periphery of wheel 13 and is arranged at the upper ends of spring-arms 15, which on tend from the base 1 and serve to hold the roller in contact with the wheel.

A spring-lever 16 is secured to the upper end of standard 6 and is held normally raised above the type-wheel13. Hangers 18 project downward from thelever,and journaled therein is a spindle 19, upon which is arranged a roll of preferably paper tape 20, which extends under a block 21, secured to the lower surface of the lever 16 at a point directly above the type-wheel13, and this block serves the purpose of a platen. upon the roll of tape and prevents it from turning too rapidly during the unwinding thereof. Standards 22 are arranged at the free end of lever 16, and journaled between them is a roller 23, to the shaft 24 of which is secured a ratchet-wheel 25, normally en'- gaged by a pawl 26. The ratchet-wheel 25 engages a toothed extension 27, formed at the upper end of a standard 28, constructed of spring metal. bent upward, so as to partly overlap the roller 23, as shown at 29, and this upwardlycurved portion forms a guide for the strip 20, which is bent over the roller 23 and under a small roller 30, journaled between the standards 22 directly above roller 23. A han die 31 is arranged on the lever 16, so as to permit the same to be readily depressed by hand. A spring 32 is connected at opposite ends to the base and to the scale-beam 3, so as to hold the platform normally raised.

When the platform4 is depressed, the rack 7 of the beam 3 will be moved upward in the direction of the arrow and will cause shaft 9 to rotate, as indicated by the arrow thereon. This will cause the type-wheel 13 to rotate under the inking-roller 14, and this rotation will continue until the weight upon the platform has been counterbalanced by the spring 32. Upon the completion of the rotation of the type-wheel 13 the numeral indicating approximately the weight upon the platform A spring 17 bears The free end of lever 16 is 4 will be in position below platen 21, and lever 16 when depressed by means of handle 31 will bring the strip of tape 20 downward into contact with said numeral, and the impressicn will therefore be made thereby. The downward movement of lever 16 will cause the ratchet-wheel to slip over the teeth of the extension 27 of the spring-standard 28, and asisoon as the lever 16 is released it will return to normal position and ratchetwheel 25 will be caused to rotate in moving upward upon the toothed extension 27, thereby rotating the roller 23 and imparting longitudinal movement to the strip of tape 20 and bringing the same into position upon the platen to recei ve another impression.

In the foregoing description I have shown the preferred form of myinvention; but I dc not limit myseif thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit or sacrificing the advantages thereof, and I therefore reserve the right to make such changes and alterations as may suggest themselves from time to time which may fall within the scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The combination with a scale-beam fulcrumed between its ends and a rack at one end thereof; of a revoluble shaft, a gear thereon meshing with the rack, 21 type-Wheei upon the shaft, a lever, a platen thereon, a

spindle connected to the lever and adapted to slipport a flexible strip, a feed-roller sup porting said strip, and means operated by the depression of the lever for rotating the roller.

2. The combination with a scale-beam fulcrumed between its ends and a rack at one end of the beam; of a revoluble shaft, agear thereon meshing with the rack, a type-wheel upon the shaft, a lever, a platen thereon, a spring-standard, a toothed extension thereto, a feed-roller, and a ratchet-wheel revoluble with the roller and adapted to slip over and be rotated by the toothed extension during the depression and the raising of the lever respectively.

3. The combination with a scale-beam, a revoluble type-wheel and means for imparting rotary motion to the type-wheel from the scale-beam, of a spring supported lever, a platen thereon, a feed-rollerjonrnaled upon the lever, a ratchet-wheel revoluble therewithin one direction, a spring-standard, and a toothed extension thereto adapted to engage and rotate the ratchet-wheel during the upward movement of the lever, said lever being adapted to be depressed to bring the platen in contact with the type-wheel.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

" MOSES Y. JORDAN.

Witnesses:

W. G. COOK, M. E. TUCKER. 

